Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-02-12
HITLER AND THITHER.

| New York dispatch states that Edward
| Unger the murderer of August BOehle, whose
| body was found in a trunk shipped 10 Balti-
! more, has made full confession Of the kill
! ing
| The Hon. George II. Pendleton, United
States minister to Germany, was among the
| passengers on board the steamer Saale from
| Bremen, which arrived at New York Sunday.
Fully $50 people attended the services com
memOrative of Gen. John A. Logan at the
| Grand Army hail. Williamsburgh New York,
Sunday evening. The services were held un-
| der the auspices Of Mansfield post. No. 81, u.
A. K. The hall was appropriately draTed.
A Milwaukee dispatch SAYS temporary insan-
ity, due to physical suiTerings, caused John
Dahlman to hang himself in his barn. He was
| formerly one Of the leading wholesale grOccrs
| of the city, and amassed a fortune OF s. o.
| 900. lie owned nearly half TIE residence part
| of the third ward Of the city.
a New York syndicate has purchased the
| entire town of AnnistOn, Ala, which contains
about 5000 inhabitants together with mineral
lands and iron furnaces. The town and the
land cover ., $50 acres and cost $1,000, 900
and the furnaces and land cost S,OOO,G0),
making total investment of Sc. 900. .0OG Two
companies were formed by this syndicate
One under the name of the Annison company,
for real estate purposes the o. her for working
the iron furnaces, with which some 1O.OUU
acres of mineral lands were secured.
grand imperial council was held at Vienna
Saturday at which the Hungarian ministers
were present The delegations were convoked
for March to vote extra credits OF SIS CO., 900 for
the army and a special credit for the equip
ment Of the landsturm.
William O'Blien, speaking at Bodyke, coun.
ty Limerick, Sunday, said that if Iri>hmen
could meet the police man to man and rifle TO
rifle in the open field he for one would prompt
ly abandon speaking and the next speech the
destrOvers Of the peoples home would hear
wou'd be from the mouths Of the peoples
guns
John Evans an old and well-known citizen
Of Kansas CITY, was run down and horribly
mangled on the elevated road near James
street depot Monday. Mr.. Evaas was coming
from Wyandotte on an elevated train and
when the train stopped at the James street
station he got off. AS he did so he observed
his sister and brother-in-law board the train
After the train had started they called to him
to join them, and in attempting to reboard the
train after il had left the gate of the station
he was caught between the car and he railing
and rolled along between them the full length
of tine ear. After the ear passed he fell
through the structure into the street below a
distance of about twenty-five feet. Ii was
found upon examination that his arm and leg
were broken and his chest crushed aud bruised
He recovered consciousness before be died and
was able TO recognize his friends and family.
1t is estimated that the steel rail capacity of
the United States mills this year is 3.C7l 900
tons. Nearly 1000 900 tons have already been
contracted for
It is reported that the Rev. Matthew Per-
kins of Boston has been selected as the new
Roman Catholic bishop of Providence, K l.
A site has been selected at New Orleans by
experienced parties from Memphis for a mill
| TO be run in opposition to the monopoly known
| as the Cotton Seed Oil Trust company
Stock has been given TO the leading planters
on the lower Mississippi, who pledge them
selves to furnish ample raw material
The citizens Of Springfield, Kentucky, have
lynched Ludlow Cornish, who took the life of
Lulu Green because she refused TO marry him,
and also undertook to kill her mother and sis
ter.
The Chicago typographical union, at
largely attended meeting, appointed commit
tee of five TO proceed to Springfield and labor
school books BY convict labor.
Two gentlemen largely interested in the OIL
fields of Pennsylvania, after prospecting for
petroleum in the vicinity of Marion, Indiana,
have begun negotiations for the lease of sever
al hundred acres of land. The region has al
ready developed an unlimited supply Of natu-
raj gas
Near Stoclldale, Pennsylvania, young wife
killed her brutal husband who had threatened
her life. She was placed on trial for murder,
without counsel or witnesses, and when the
judge directed the jury TO acquit her the
court room resOunded with cheers.
The brakemeu of the Atlantic and Pacific
road, by determined front, caused Supern-
tendent Polk To cancel an order that they
must hereafter ride on top of their trains.
Major VI. 5. Gordon. au Indian fighter who
became famous at the time OF the Custer mas
sacre, has recently received from an English
syndicate SS)l,00O ia cash for the cattle and
horses on his ranch near Decatur, Texas.
CoIvin Polk, a notorious moonshner of Pope
county. Arkansas, has been sentenced to egn-
teen months coniement in the penitentiary OF
that state.
The financial centers of Europe report a
general decline in securities during the past
week. especially for French and German ac-
count
The Rock Island extension has completed its
bridge across the Kansas river. and expects to
lay track into Topeka this week.